This one has been on the backburner for a long time (I have an email from producer Stuart Whyte dating back to 2004), but I re-found this in my archives and decided to put up an article. The game was apparently 80% done, but was canned when Micropose ran into money problems.

There is another Micropose title that was unreleased called Tinhead, which I will do an article for at some point. There is a ROM of that one, so it should be interesting.

The Amiga article has gameplay shots, but the pictures of that on Stuart Whyte's website were done with a camera with a flash, so I didn't even bother trying to salvage them. I imagine that the gameplay shots were from the snes version, and not the Amiga version, as it clearly states in the business plan that the snes version was being developed first.

Actually, I looked on Underground Gamer and found they have scans for the entire "The One" Amiga magazine. I am downloading that particular issue right now, and I will add the pages to the website once I am done.

You're talking about the Super NES version of Tinhead, right? The Genesis one was released, though it was delayed by almost a year and squeaked out at $19.99 in the Genesis' dying days.

The Genesis version got at least two releases - Ballistic (Accolade) in 1993 and Spectrum Holobyte in 1994. I don't remember if Majesco re-released it later on.

Really? Because I remember reading in magazines about how Tinhead was delayed and how no one saw it on shelves until Ballistic released it in 1995. Also, magazines didn't review Tinhead in the U.S. until 1994, which would've been odd if it was a 1993 release.

Really? Because I remember reading in magazines about how Tinhead was delayed and how no one saw it on shelves until Ballistic released it in 1995. Also, magazines didn't review Tinhead in the U.S. until 1994, which would've been odd if it was a 1993 release.

I'm a little dubious of the 1993 date on the Ballistic release. I see a 1993 Sega copyright on the back of the box, but that's referring to the VRC rating system. I don't have the instructions handy to see if there's a copyright date on those. My copy is an original Ballistic release, though (not one of those Majesco re-releases with the Ballistic sticker on the back of the box).

You're talking about the Super NES version of Tinhead, right? The Genesis one was released, though it was delayed by almost a year and squeaked out at $19.99 in the Genesis' dying days.

The Genesis version got at least two releases - Ballistic (Accolade) in 1993 and Spectrum Holobyte in 1994. I don't remember if Majesco re-released it later on.

Really? Because I remember reading in magazines about how Tinhead was delayed and how no one saw it on shelves until Ballistic released it in 1995. Also, magazines didn't review Tinhead in the U.S. until 1994, which would've been odd if it was a 1993 release.

Equinox for SNES. The box has a 1992 copyright, while NP reviewed it in January 1993, and I think GamePro reviewed it in May. I have a PDF from an old version of NoA's site that listed all licensed NA SNES games and said it came out March 1994 (though I thought it was closer to summer). But I believe EGM reviewed it in April 1994, which would fit with NoA's date.

I'm a little dubious of the 1993 date on the Ballistic release. I see a 1993 Sega copyright on the back of the box, but that's referring to the VRC rating system. I don't have the instructions handy to see if there's a copyright date on those. My copy is an original Ballistic release, though (not one of those Majesco re-releases with the Ballistic sticker on the back of the box).

Yeah, I think the 1993 release date is a mistake. The Spectrum Holobyte release also seems to be much rarer than the Ballistic one. A quick check of eBay shows one actual Spectrum cartridge and a pile of Ballistic releases, with a few auctions using the Spectrum box as a stock image.

Yeah, I think the 1993 release date is a mistake. The Spectrum Holobyte release also seems to be much rarer than the Ballistic one. A quick check of eBay shows one actual Spectrum cartridge and a pile of Ballistic releases, with a few auctions using the Spectrum box as a stock image.

The ROMs, at least the ones that are out there, have "1994.APR" in them.